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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 38
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Hezekiah’s life is lengthened fifteen years—The sun returns ten degrees as a sign—Hezekiah praises and thanks the Lord.
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In</span> those days was <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 20: 1 (1-6, 9-11); 2 Chr. 32: 32.">Hezekiah</a> sick unto death.  And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
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Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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And said, Remember now, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done <i>that which is</i> good in thy sight.  And Hezekiah wept sore.
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&#182; Then came the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to Isaiah, saying,
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Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/5a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 42: 48; TG Benevolence.">add</a> unto thy days fifteen years.
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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 35.">defend</a> this city.
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And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto thee from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will do this thing that he hath spoken;
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Behold, I will bring again the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 20: 10 (9-10).">shadow</a> of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.  So the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/38/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 10: 12 (12-14).">sun</a> returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
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&#182; The <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Writing of.">writing</a> of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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I said, I shall not see the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 14: 2 (1-2).">cut</a> off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/38/12b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB emaciation.">pining</a> sickness: from day <i>even</i> to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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I reckoned till morning, <i>that,</i> as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day <i>even</i> to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Like a crane <i>or</i> a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail <i>with looking</i> upward: O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I am oppressed; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB be my security.">undertake</a> for me.
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What shall I say?  he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done <i>it:</i> I shall go softly all my years in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 10: 1; Moses 7: 4 (42-44).">bitterness</a> of my soul.
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O Lord, by these <i>things men</i> live, and in all these <i>things is</i> the life of my spirit: <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB restore me.">so</a> wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
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Behold, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/17a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR on my peace came great bitterness.">for</a> peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/38/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 27: 29 (28-30)."><i>delivered</i></a> it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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For the grave cannot praise thee, death can <i>not</i> celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I <i>do</i> this day: the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 145: 4.">father</a> to the children shall make known thy <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/38/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 78: 4 (2-4).">truth</a>.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>was ready</i> to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/38/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB smear it on.">lay</a> <i>it</i> for a plaister upon the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/38/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 2: 7.">boil</a>, and he shall recover.
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Hezekiah also had said, What <i>is</i> the sign that I shall go up to the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?
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